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For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 243 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding latin1 \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 0 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language danish \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes true \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size largest Some examples of how to use minipages \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size largest in LyX \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size largest by Jürgen Vigna (jug@sad.it) \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset VSpace bigskip \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Box Frameless 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0.3cm \end_inset \end_layout \end_inset \hfill \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "c" use_parbox 0 width "45text%" special "none" height "1pt" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset VSpace 0.3cm \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \align center \begin_inset Tabular \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 1 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 2 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 3 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 4 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 5 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 2 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard a \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard b \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard c \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard d \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 3 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard e \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard f \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard g \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard h \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 4 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard i \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard j \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard k \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard l \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard 5 \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard m \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard n \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard o \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard p \end_layout \end_inset \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset VSpace 0.3cm \end_inset \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "c" use_parbox 0 width "45text%" special "none" height "1pt" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard \align center This is Table 1 \end_layout \end_inset \hfill \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "c" use_parbox 0 width "45text%" special "none" height "1pt" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard \align center This is Table 2 \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Subsection* I use the following when I have to write bilingual text (I live in a region in Italy where about 60% of the people speak german and so you have to write letters in german and italian in two columns as the following text shows): \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \hfill \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "c" use_parbox 0 width "45text%" special "none" height "1pt" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard \lang german Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text \begin_inset Foot status collapsed \begin_layout Standard \lang german Dies ist eine Fußnote \end_layout \end_inset . Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. \end_layout \end_inset \hfill \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "c" use_parbox 0 width "45text%" special "none" height "1pt" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. \begin_inset Foot status collapsed \begin_layout Standard This is a footnote \end_layout \end_inset This is an english Text. \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard I hope this helps understand for what f.ex. you can use minipages! \end_layout \begin_layout Subsection* Greets Jürgen \end_layout \end_body \end_document